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Microfictions / Ana María Shua ; translated by Steven J. Stewart.

Shua, Ana María, 1951- (author.). Stewart, Steven J., 1973- (translator.).

Summary:

"Cinderella's sisters surgically modify their feet to win the prince's love. A werewolf gathers up enough courage to visit a dentist. A medium trying to reach the afterworld gets a recorded message. A fox and a badger compete to out-fool each other. Whether writing of insomnia from a mosquito's point of view or showing us what happens after the princess kisses the frog, Ana María Shua, in these fleet and incandescent stories, is nothing if not pithy, except, of course, wildly entertaining. Some as short as a sentence, these microfictions have been selected and translated from four different books. Flashes of insight, cracks of wit, twists of logic, and quirks of language: these are fictions in the distinguished Argentinean tradition of Borges and Cortázar and Denevi, as powerful as they are brief"--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780803220911
ISBN: 080322091X
Physical Description: 1 online resource (196 pages).
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2009]
Copyright: ©2009

Content descriptions

General Note:	The microfictions being presented in this volume are taken from four previously published Spanish-language books.
Formatted Contents Note:	Monsters -- Dreams -- Magic -- Health -- Literature -- Men and women -- Faith.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified NLC staff and students only.
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Language Note:	Translated from the Spanish.
Action Note:	digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.